A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c8.31
A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c8.31
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c8.31
The fact that Andhradeśa and Kerala—Andhradeśa to a lesser degree than Kerala—are free from the round-headed (Alpine-Armenoid) element, shows that it came in by way of Sind, Gujarat and Mahārāshtra, and broke into Tamilnad over south-eastern Mysore. If numbers be any criterion, the round-heads who constitute a small percentage when compared with the basic long-heads (proto-Mediterranean and Mediterranean) are later arrivals in India—a conclusion supported by the evidence on the succession of race strata elsewhere.